Past Couples to Haunt 'Big Brother'

Buoyed by the success of bringing a couple familiar faces
among the new players on "Survivor," CBS will inhabit its summer "Big Brother"
with "some of the most notorious duos from past seasons."

They won't say who or from what seasons they're from, only that
they will be announced on the show's season premiere July 7 as part of the
season's theme, "Double Trouble."

But the identities of the eight new houseguests were
announced Thursday: Kalia Booker, 30, a writer from Philadelphia; Porsche
Briggs, 23, a VIP cocktail waitress from Fort Lauderdale; Dominic Briones, 25,
a college student from San Mateo, Calif.; Cassi Colvin, 26, a model from Allen,
Texas; Lawon Exum, 39, a legal file clerk from Urbana, Ill.; Keith Henderson,
32, a human resources manager from Bolingbrook, Ill.; Shelly Moore, 41, an
"outdoors industry exec" from Centerville, Ohio; and Adam Poch, 39, a music
inventory manager from East Brunswick, N.J.

The show has certainly experimented with bringing back past
housemates before including a full all star season in 2006.

The 13th season will be set in the same old
studio, but decked out to look like a Venice Beach loft, with surfboards,
graffiti, a popsicle room and a tarot card motif as well as a "Frank Gehry
inspired" bedroom.

Once more the show will air Sundays, Wednesdays and
Thursdays and will be hosted by Julie Chen.

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Roger Catlin is TV critic for the Hartford Courant and writes a daily column about what's on television called TV Eye. He is also on the board of the Television Critics Association. Before all of this, he was rock critic ... read more